Bruv you are severely misremembering the movement that allowed the alt right to coalesce. No one is saying it's bad to not buy products you don't want to buy. We're saying it's seriously concerning the racism and sexist that attached itself to that movement has congealed into something permanent in our political climate

I wish we could stop deifying Richard Stallman. He had a good idea once, but the open source movement has outgrown him and his transphobic misogynistic beliefs

To be fair to the large number of blocked instances on the Beehaw blocklist, most of them are from a starter blocklist that's been circulated through the fediverse of "These are skinhead and child sexual abuse material instances. Block them before they even try to federate." I think the only true defederation controversy is with Lemmy.World and sh.itjust.works and that was a purely mechanical issue of "too much troll traffic all at once and no tools to surgically handle it rather than just burn down the whole thing"

Starvation wages are slavery. And yes. Our techocolonial society engages at it at many levels. No. We should not be okay with it. We should do what we can do disengage from businesses that engage in it, and we should be self forgiving of ourselves when we can't. We should always be advocating for the workers, even if sometimes that means who we're advocating for is us

App support

Just one of the many signs this was a rushed decision he forced through without consulting anyone

Dumb on Elon. This is clearly a decision he made the Sunday afternoon before he had it rolled out. He'd teased it a long time ago, and anyone familiar with his obession with the letter X would have seen it coming, but this implementation clearly demonstrates he didn't ask anyone to look into what would be involved with the rebrand. He just made them do it

It was left leaning until about 2014. Then it slowly crept farther and farther right wing. Slowly bleeding users who didn't want to deal with the fascist jerks. Slowly converting fence sitters into fascist jerks by normalizing fascism by pretending it was just asking questions, just making edgy jokes, you know the drill. Next, 2016 came. That for me was when the bottom fell out of twitter. The Russian twitter bots were everywhere. And it took twitter way too long to deal with it. I think by that point, the platform was ruined. It was never going to grow meaningfully by attracting new people. It was just going to slowly decay as people looked for their friends and favorite creators on Reddit, Discord, Youtube, or wherever else they went. But that decay would have been slow until Elon tanked it. His efforts have chased off users in droves

Yeah I think this is purely them doing the bare minimum to look like they want to communicate while at the same time doing nothing. See also: app developers who tried to work with Reddit that Reddit absolutely ignored.

This is a shallow PR stunt that anyone familiar with the situation will see through. Its only meant to be seen by investors who only know what's going on with Reddit from reading Forbes and Bloomberg

Good. I'm sick of reading all over the place what fascists the Beehaw moderators are, and I'm sure it's even more exhausting for you, so I'm glad you're drawing these boundaries. I've mentioned it a few places, but there seems to be two camps on what the Fediverse should be. There's the camp that thinks the Fediverse should be a fully unmoderated peer to peer free for all, and there's the camp that thinks the Fediverse should be a distributed governance model in which users are free to choose the admins whose moderation style matches their desired moderation style.

People have a lot of rage at Beehaw for being moderated a certain way, and the questions I always find myself asking are: "Why do you want to engage with a community you do not like?" if the person seems to hate Beehaw, or "Have you considered the possibility that you like the discussions on Beehaw specifically because it's curated that way" when someone seems upset that they need a secondary account to access Beehaw because their main account is on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.

I, personally, am in the second of the two camps I described at first. Hence, this is my primary account. I really like it here. I like it a lot. For this reason, I want you to keep doing what you need to keep it being what it is, and if that means you and Alyaza taking breaks, good! I can only imagine that rage is even more exhausting for you fine beefolk since you've invested more of yourselves into making this instance what it is, and you have to deal with it much more constantly.

So take some time to engage as a user. Go to some dance clubs. Go tubing on a river. Love yourself, just as a general concept.

I'm coming from the opposite approach. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me a third time? Jesus Christ, stop getting fooled. I'd prefer to defederate and monitor. If Threads turns out to be different, I'd be interested in having a trial account on an instance that federates with Threads. I have a similar feeling about if Tumblr started federating. Cautious trialing from an instance that federates.

I'm not on your instance, so I don't get a ton of say, but I would just recommend that part of the Alt-Right's playbook is getting seen by as many eyes as possible. exploding-heads is trying to find ways to game the federation system and the algorithm to determine "hot" to platform their hate and pipeline people who don't recognize the dog whistles to their side. Whether you mind or don't mind seeing the content or can or cannot block the communities and users from over there is immaterial to exploding-heads's strategy. The point is to get seen that first time.

Further, whether you agree with the above, please consider this: telling vulnerable groups to do their own moderation on an individual level is an inherently privileged stance. Part of the alt-right's strategy is cyber-bullying. I'm going to focus on the cyber-bullying in this section of this discussion, just under the assumption that people disagree with my stance that exploding-heads is trying to promote a particular political agenda. Whether you agree or disagree on that point is immaterial. There is no denying that exploding-heads users engage in a pattern of cyber-bullying against minority groups. The aim in that case is to cause mental harm to those minority groups. If there's a pattern, why not address the root cause? That root cause being that exploding-heads is not moderated or administrated to the standards other instances in the federation expect, or even to the standards laid out in their sidebar rules.

Users of the fediverse join the instances they do with particular understandings of the rules and moderation styles that administrators provide to their users in their sidebar and any documents linked from there before signing up. Here are some selected rules from lemmy.one that exploding-heads users break regularly:

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism

No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies

No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users

Do not share intentionally false or misleading information

So, please. To the administrators of lemmy.one, consider these points when you make your decision. Let your own users' voices stand out more. But if you're a lemmy.one user, please take all of this into consideration as you make your recommendation